According to the Tuesday ruling, the U.S. District Court jury found that Todd – known as “Rome” – beat four young women who were paying him the proceeds of their prostitution. Having placed advertisements on Craigslist.org and in the Seattle Weekly, the women made hundreds of dollars each day; Todd, according to court documents, allowed one woman to keep “$35 each day to pay for condoms, food and gas” and kept the others similarly impoverished.

Hearing his appeal, the three-judge panel found that, while Todd was correctly convicted, the jury’s findings do not support the sentence he received. But, rather than argue that Todd’s sentence should be shorter, the panel found that his sentence was simply incomplete.

A new sentencing hearing will be held at a date not specified in the court’s order.